There is a video footage of concentration camps taken by the Nazis before they were liberated I know this sounds morbid... but I like to learn about history, even when the subject matter covers heinous atrocities like the holocaust. I’ve always been curious about this since the only footage I’ve seen seems to have been taken by the soldiers who liberated the camps (heartbreaking footage of things like the mass graves, piles of shoes, bones in gas chambers, etc) but I feel like this is definitely something the nazis would have documented and while I’m sure they destroyed some evidence of it, I’m doubtful they were able to get rid of all of it. So, does footage like this exist? Where would one who is interested in the history of the holocaust find such films? Making photos and films of any camps or executions was generally forbidden without permission. Permission was sometimes given, however. First of all, when the Nazis wanted to produce propaganda. The Theresienstadt propaganda fo...
The True Story Behind The Dark Wizard, HBO's Docuseries About Free Climber Dean Potter On the evening of May 16, 2015, Dean Potter and fellow climber Graham Hunt stood atop Taft Point, a granite overlook thousands of feet above Yosemite Valley. Below them, the valley floor stretched into shadow. Far beneath the jump point was a narrow notch in a ridgeline, the kind of gap wingsuit flyers attempt to thread at speeds often exceeding 100 miles per hour. The margin for error was vanishingly small; so was the time they would have to correct it. The men jumped. For roughly 15 seconds, Potter, then 43, and Hunt, 29, moved through open air in wingsuits, their bodies held aloft by fabric webbing stretched between their arms and legs. Then both struck the rock wall; neither deployed a parachute. Both men died immediately upon impact. Hunt, a Yosemite local and Potter’s regular flying partner, had been regarded by those who knew him as a gifted wingsuit flyer, though during his five year...
